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165 Editorial collective Claudia Aradau, Matthew Charles, David Cunningham, Howard Feather, Peter Hallward, Esther Leslie, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford, Chris Wilbert Contributors William I. Robinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Richard Seymour is the author of The Liberal Defence of Murder (2008) and The Meaning of David Cameron (2010). He is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, a blogger at Lenin’s Tomb and an occasional columnist. Robin Blackburn teaches in the sociology department at the University of Essex, and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us (Verso, 2006). Étienne Balibar is Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Paris X, Nanterre, and Distinguished Professor of Humanities, University of California, Irvine. His latest book in English is French Philosophy Since 1945, co-edited with John Rajchman (The New Press, 2010). Stella Sandford teaches philosophy at the CRMEP at Kingston University London. Her latest book is Plato and Sex (Polity, 2010). Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond is a physicist and epistemologist, Professor Emeritus, University of Nice–Sophia Antipolis. His most recent books are Quoi sert la science? (Bayard, 2008) and La science n’est pas l’art (Hermann, 2010). Andrew Barry is Reader in Geography at Oxford University. He is co-editor of The Technological Economy (Routledge, 2005) and a special issue of Economy and Society, Gabriel Tarde (2007). Copyedited and typeset by illuminati www.illuminatibooks.co.uk Layout by Peter Osborne and David Cunningham Printed by Russell Press, Russell House, Bulwell Lane, Basford, Nottingham NG6 0BT Bookshop distribution
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CommentarY The Global Capital Leviathan William I. Robinson......................................................................................... 2
David Cameron’s Tea Party Richard Seymour............................................................................................. 6
Alternatives to Austerity: The Need for a Public Utility Finance System Robin Blackburn............................................................................................ 10
DOSSIER From Structure to Rhizome: Transdisciplinarity in French Thought (1) Introduction Peter Osborne................................................................................................ 15
Structure: Method or Subversion of the Social Sciences? Étienne Balibar.............................................................................................. 17
Sex: A Transdisciplinary Concept Stella Sandford.............................................................................................. 23
Science: The Invisible Transdisciplinarity of French Culture Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond.......................................